…is what I find myself assembling from the the wild landscape I find right out the door this afternoon as I settle in for a long cozy New Years weekend with ten Italian friends at a family weekend house near Capalbio in the Maremma region of southwest Tuscany – and tonight I am very proud to be making that minestrone of verdure, farro e lenticchie with my modest Roman baby potato harvest for a discerning Italian crowd. (more info here & on wikipedia)